seraphs

• Such truth as came to them was brought confusedly in the voices and deeds of men not at all like the seraphs of unfailing wing and piercing vision—men who believed falsities as well as truths, and did the wrong as well as the right. —  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
• He writes of the "damp garden of the seriphs," and I wonder if he means "seraphs," or if he has combined the American "serif" with the British —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
• Yet the song was of a gayer sort than seraphs, presumably, are wont to sing; and its method, distinctly, was that of the modern operatic stage. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
• O holy rest O balmy breath of love O heart divinest, best Thy depth I prove I ask this gift of thee A life all lily fair And fragrant as the gardens be Where seraphs are Helen Bradley JESUS, MY GOD AND MY ALL O Jesus! —  Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
• Such truth as came to them was brought confusedly in the voices and deeds of men not at all like the seraphs of unfailing wing and piercing vision--men who believed falsities as well as truths, and did the wrong as well as the right. —  George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings ; Philosophy

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